I am now in the middle of my 4th week at my new position at Symbol Technologies and I couldn�t be happier than a pig in sh*t and I really feel compelled to tell you all why, as I believe many of you are in current positions very similar to ...

Vibez is a new MP3 player by European Disk/Memory/USB drive maker Trekstor. I haven't seen these in person yet, but the look is really different take on the very basic makeup of the iPod pattern structure. Nicely done (in spirit). I like the idea of a more rubberized "moving" wheel which ...

Often in my reading of design literature I come across the phrase �encouraging �, especially in architecture. Recently, I was reading BusinessWeek�s Architecture Award�s selection and a few times I read that phrase. Whether it be �encouraging creativity�, �encouraging collaboration�, �encouraging productivity�, etc. This use of the term �encouraging� to discuss ...

Last week, I wrote a short blurb referencing Jonas L�wgren's article describing pliability as a type of aesthetic for interaction design. Here I expand a little more on the topic with some of my own ideas. As a refresher, Jonas uses the word "pliability" to describe the quality of an interaction ...

I'll be giving an updated and revised version of my "What is rich? Why do rich?" presentation next month for UPA Israel on Jan 9th @ 6:30p. The link below has the announcement in Hebrew. I hope to have it in English soon and will post here. My talk will ...

Jonas L�wgren, mentioned in an earlier posting this week, will be discussing aesthetics of IxD, at a presentation to the Sweden IxDA local group in Stockholm, Sweden on Dec. 11. Here's the announcement. Wish I could be there.

Listen to the podcast interview of my partner in AJAX Design Crime, Bill Scott (Yahoo!) and me answer some great questions from the likes of Jared Spool and Joshua Porter of UIE and Bokardo fame, come and listen to this podcast. Hopefully it will give you just a taste of ...

I just wanted to point people to this very well done presentation by the design team responsible for the new, low-cost MOTOFONE by Motorola for developing countries. What's been interesting is how much initial reaction from the design community has been, "When will you release it here?". Disclaimer: Sometime early next ...

2006 by David Armano and his readers David Armanom, of Logic+Emotion fame, put together a great presentation of what 2006 was all about from an Experience Design perspective. Enjoy! You can look at the presentation above and also read the intro article (also available in PDF). Oh! and I'm one of the many ...

It is rare that I post a reference to Jakob Nielsen, but this latest Alert Box is worth a read. Nothing "new", but brought all together nicely. To put it simply, "Progressive Disclosure" is just a design pattern of deciding what needs to be in the primary context of use, and ...

Finally! a GREAT!!!! example of a quality of interaction design aesthetics explained. In this case by Jonas L�wgren of Malm� University's School of Arts and Communication. Jonas wrote the article a while back, but I finally got to it this past week with my new long commute. This is one of ...